Kenneth Matheson was in Metcalf Australia and his son John was in New Zealand . John went to the Boer War and returned to NZ He paid maintenance while away as he left a child by the name of John William Ferguson . He took his mothers name as she was Jessie Ferguson. We don't know but think that Dugald Matheson who looked after Sommes Island in Wellington had married a sister to Jessie a Alice Maria Ferguson . We would like to trace John William who was registered in the North Island